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Tuesday’s letters

Mark Hohmeister troubles us with the global disaster du jour. We must do this or maybe that to avoid the ruin so predictable and sure.

Star gazers have foretold an asteroid will smash the earth. A spaceman warned there would be little left for us of substance or of worth. Urgently, he advised: Let us build a rocket ship and leave the planet behind and land upon some distant world we’re someday bound to find.

I wonder though: Will there be an economy fare? Can I afford the one-way, first-class ticket to get me there?

Better to see the rainbow in the clouds and think of heaven’s peace: While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, winter and summer shall never, ever cease.

DENNIS MURPHY

dennisandconnie@hotmail.com

FSU shouldn’t

welcome notoriety

Re: “Stopping rape starts with respecting women” (My View, Dec. 21).

Sharon Kant-Rauch rekindled my disgust with the way that football, which should remain an enjoyable intermural college sport, has become at FSU the tail that wags the academic dog. It is regrettable that so many institutions of higher education, like FSU, succumb to the transitory allurements of big-time sports, finding out later that this association brings with it unsavory moral and ethical injustices.

In the Jameis Winston investigation, the “kind of a football player thing” his teammate alluded to reflects grievously on the coaches, the dignity of the school and the true purpose of higher education. The university administration’s failure to enunciate its displeasure with this affair by some kind of censure, regardless of Booster reaction, sends the wrong message to this community and to the nation. Notoriety must not be mistaken for laudable fame.